ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Jungle Beats Holla at me on drums

118 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 2:36 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 175 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 118
LENGTH: 2:36
DIFFICULTY: 62/100

toms through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-20, silence through bars 21-22, hi-hat through bars 23-30, ride through bars 31-38 and snare through bars 39-46, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 108-113 and 115-122 -- 12.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    108                              109
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|--------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x---------------|
BD |x---x---x-------x--x-x--x---x---|x---x---x-------x---------------|

Jungle Beats Holla at me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 47, 48, 69, 70, 71, 72 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

The grooves the song is built on -- AH -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- T, C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through Part C and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through Part E and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
Through Part C and the Break -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
Through Part J -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
Through Part J and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through Part L and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
and 6 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Jungle Beats Holla at me?

175 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Jungle Beats Holla at me hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Jungle Beats Holla at me?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 47, 48, 69, 70, 71, 72 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED